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5E Instructional Strategies
Maryland Sea Grant has supported the development of a range of lesson plans on coastal, marine, and environmental science.
The lesson plans presented below are based on the 5E Instructional Model, which emphasize inquiry, critical thinking, and the process of science. The plans were written by schoolteachers on fellowships to improve their instructional skills in this area.
You can benefit from their experience and enrich your own teaching. You can use these resources to encourage your students to undertake research projects and to learn about current research in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Some lesson plans incorporate field components to expand students' investigations beyond classroom walls.
Each lesson plan provides these categories of information: Objectives, Lesson Materials, Procedures, References, and State Standard Indicators.
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Maryland Sea Grant CollegeSchool:
Maryland Sea GrantSchool:
Windsor Knolls Middle School / Urbana Middle SchoolSchool:
Maryland Sea Grant CollegeSchool:
Chesapeake High School / STAT Teacher Baltimore County Public Schools, MarylandSchool:
Northern Middle School / Northern Garrett High SchoolSchool:
Hereford High School, Maryland, Supervisor of Secondary Science, Baltimore County Public Schools, MarylandAmerican Chestnut Education
Biology
Editor: J. Adam Frederick and Jacqueline Takacs
School: Carroll County Public Schools, Maryland Sea Grant and University of Maryland Extension
Earth Science
Editor: J. Adam Frederick, and Jackie Takacs
School: Carroll County Public Schools, Maryland Sea Grant, and University of Maryland Extension
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
